Installing Gradle¶

Requires Java 8

Make sure you have already installed Java 8 before installing Gradle. See here if you need help installing Java 8.

Using a Package Manager¶

The easiest way to install Gradle is using a package manager described here. Or, you can install Gradle manually as described here.

Verifying Installation¶

At the console/terminal, run

$ gradle -v

and you should see something like:

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 4.8.1
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Build time:   2018-06-21 07:53:06 UTC
Revision:     0abdea078047b12df42e7750ccba34d69b516a22

Groovy:       2.4.12
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.11 compiled on March 23 2018
JVM:          1.8.0_161 (Oracle Corporation 25.161-b12)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.12.6 x86_64